What the Lyle's Golden Syrup Logo Actually Shows, Not What I Expected

I have never noticed this before even after buying quite a few tins of Lyle's syrup over the years

I always thought as others probably did, it is a sleeping lion

But the meaning is a bit more gruesome

It is actually showing a dead lion swarming with insects and is from a story about Samson from the bible

Abram Lyle created this in 1881 from when he started selling golden syrup

The Lion and the Bees story tells of Samson killing a young lion with his bare hands after it approached and roared at him. He returned a few days later to finds that a swarm of bees have made a hive inside the lions carcass

Samson then takes the honey from the hive and gives it to his parents , and when they asked where it was from he said "Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet."

Which is a weird thing to say , it must have been a Samson thing

I will never look at a tin of Lyles in the same way anymore, the bees inside its' carcass is engrained in my mind now

They also mention HP sauce in the article and where this title comes from

HP means Houses of Parliament , the picture of it is on the front of the bottle

Apparently a grocer called Frederick Gibson Garton registered the name HP Sauce in 1895 after hearing that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament had begun serving it.

I wonder how many more food products have undiscovered meanings behind their logos ?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/people-only-just-discovering-depressing-28732790